Sunday Afternoon Power Outages Hit Contra Costa County

• 4,533 – City of Walnut Creek
• 3,722 – City of Pleasant Hill
• 1,166 – City of Lafayette
• 592 – City of Martinez
• 468 – City of Pittsburg
• 398 – City of San Pablo
• 309 – City of El Cerrito
• 302 – City of Richmond
• 253 – City of Concord
• 137 – City of Antioch
• 69 – City of Brentwood
• 44 – City of Oakley

The outages appear to be “weather related” according to PG&E.

The National Weather service issued a flood watch from 4:00 pm Saturday through 10:00 am Monday which included most of the Bay Area—including all of Contra Costa County. They also issued a warning due to wind gusts with 45-60 MPH wind speed to 70-80 mph in other parts of California.

PG&E also reported the following Sunday:

1:30 pm — As the first significant winter storm of 2024 hits Northern and Central California, PG&E has responded by opening emergency storm centers and mobilizing hundreds of electric and tree crews.

The Central Coast,  where wind gusts have neared 80 mph, is feeling the brunt of the storm. PG&E has set up a base camp at Laguna Seca Raceway between Monterey and Salinas and has 37 crews on storm duty ready to assess damage and make repairs to restore service to customers.

As of 1:30 p.m., there were nearly 200,000 customers without power, about half of those in the South Bay and Central Coast (103,000); the North Coast (29,000); Bay Area (25,000); North Valley and Sierra (24,000); and Central Valley (17,000).

High winds will continue through the afternoon so beware of the potential for downed powerlines and fallen trees.

10:00 am — As of mid-morning, there were about 127,000 customers without power in PG&E’s service area. Of those, the majority were in the South Bay and Central Coast (81,000), North Coast (20,000) and Bay Area (14,000).